Icex3

[Meknomancer]

Haven't seen any of these being played but since its the holidays i decided to roll one. Icex3 tanker was my main on live and i loved it, but i wanted to try the new ice epics. After a couple days play i realised the pet is useless, ice bolt does 0 damage, shiver is useless and even procced out with its massive range frigid wind just doesn't recharge fast enough and its damage wasn't worth the wait and it was sucking slots from other powers. So as always with my ice melee toons i ended up dropping stuff to put cross punch back in. I've respecced once already but before i go again i was hoping someone who has played one would look over it and let me know if i missed anything useful.

 

Ignore the titles (i was planning to run one with just cytos in the armour to free up slots), CYTOS is current build, NRG RES prospective build.

ICEX3 CYTOS - Scrapper (Ice Melee - Ice Armor).mbd ICEX3 NRG RES - Scrapper (Ice Melee - Ice Armor).mbd

[Hero Star]

I just made one and I'm at lvl 34 now. I'm sure you have more experience with ice melee than me. I'm currently built for survival while solo leveling, so I put -recharge proc in Chilling Embrace, and a -recharge and chance for heal procs in Frozen Aura. I also took Ice Patch which has been great. Is Ice Patch not as beneficial at high level content? I can also see taking Cross Punch since Ice Melee can be damage lacking when not critting. I also planned on taking Frozen Spear as well.

 

This has been one of my favorite characters to play in a while.

[Meknomancer]

On 12/31/2024 at 7:55 PM, Hero Star said:

I just made one and I'm at lvl 34 now. I'm sure you have more experience with ice melee than me. I'm currently built for survival while solo leveling, so I put -recharge proc in Chilling Embrace, and a -recharge and chance for heal procs in Frozen Aura. I also took Ice Patch which has been great. Is Ice Patch not as beneficial at high level content? I can also see taking Cross Punch since Ice Melee can be damage lacking when not critting. I also planned on taking Frozen Spear as well.

 

This has been one of my favorite characters to play in a while.

 

It is a ton of fun. Its still an end hog and i wish i had more slots and recharge for energy absorption. I was originally running with frigid wind, straight swap out for cross punch. Ran out of slots i would like to have a fury of the glad/sandman heal in frozen aura. Levelling up ice patch is great when your solo and have time to herd stuff up with chilling embrace, in teams especially later on by the time you drop it someones nuked the mob. Frozen Spear hits like a truck but so do all the snipes procced out.

 

Havent tried the - recharge proc in chilling i'm not sure how often it'd fire off and i do like stacked slows, its also an end heavy toggle.

 

Pretty sure its gonna get yet another respec, i can't run all those toggles, leadership has to go. I couldn't keep them up on a Market Crash vs +4 Freak rezzers who were dropping drain patches and energy absorb wasn't recharging fast enough for me to fill up the blue bar.

[Hero Star]

I haven't done Market Crash or and have only done +2 Freaks, but I use Icy Bastion especially for Stunners and kill as fast as possible lol. I have nothing against base buffs or amplifiers, so I'll definitely be grabbing the Endurance Protection one.

[Hero Star]

On 1/2/2025 at 9:22 AM, Meknomancer said:

 

It is a ton of fun. Its still an end hog and i wish i had more slots and recharge for energy absorption. I was originally running with frigid wind, straight swap out for cross punch. Ran out of slots i would like to have a fury of the glad/sandman heal in frozen aura. Levelling up ice patch is great when your solo and have time to herd stuff up with chilling embrace, in teams especially later on by the time you drop it someones nuked the mob. Frozen Spear hits like a truck but so do all the snipes procced out.

 

Havent tried the - recharge proc in chilling i'm not sure how often it'd fire off and i do like stacked slows, its also an end heavy toggle.

 

Pretty sure its gonna get yet another respec, i can't run all those toggles, leadership has to go. I couldn't keep them up on a Market Crash vs +4 Freak rezzers who were dropping drain patches and energy absorb wasn't recharging fast enough for me to fill up the blue bar.

Do you have any tips on dealing with Psi damage? I had my first encounter with Arachnos and the Psi bosses tore me apart lol. I'll have to see how high I can get Psi Resists from set bonuses, but I'm thinking my best bet would be taking Shadowmeld and hopefully killing fast enough.

[Meknomancer]

3 hours ago, Hero Star said:

Do you have any tips on dealing with Psi damage? I had my first encounter with Arachnos and the Psi bosses tore me apart lol. I'll have to see how high I can get Psi Resists from set bonuses, but I'm thinking my best bet would be taking Shadowmeld and hopefully killing fast enough.

 

Targeting the forts and tarantula mistress and queens with freezing touch right away and hoping it'll recharge fast enough for a 2nd application before they murder you. Or slotting energy absorption for end drain and getting it off twice sometimes can be enough to get them running away. Or...turn off icicles and frozen aura-sleep. But that rarely works on bosses.

 

With tough/permafrost and icy bastion theres room for 3 imperviums and an aegis which could help but where would you pull the slots from?

6 slot ice sword with hecatomb. 6 slot frozen aura with armageddon. 6 slot frost with ragnarok/posi set. You can easily hit mid 50s on psi resist but i don't see the point its one of the rarer things to worry about unless your going +4/8 vs arach/carnies. I'd much prefer high recharge. With shadowmeld you'll be hitting 42'ish psi defence with a single luck of the gambler 7.5%.

I took frozen spear because i wanted icex3 and hate moonbeam animation but i can see why you'd want it.